Top Ten Best Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States.The Top Ten
1 Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
2 ..forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead.
3 While the art of printing is left to us, science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.
4 What a stupendous..incomprehensible machine is man!..can endure toil,famine,stripes,imprisonment & death itself..& inflict on his fellow men a bondage,1 hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Confusing.
Sounds like something he would say to Alexander Hamilton..
Wow, that is either really deep or really flat out dumb
5 As to the species of exercise,I advise the gun.While this gives a moderate exercise to the body,it gives boldness,enterprise,& independence to the mind..Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.Never think of taking a book with you.
6 Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
7 The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
8 I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
9 What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
10 The moral sense,or conscience,is as much a part of man as his leg or arm.It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree..It may be strengthened by exercise,as may any particular limb of the body.
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